Making Public Histories 2026 – Challenging Anzac

Making Public Histories 2026 – Challenging Anzac

Speakers to be announced Making Public Histories is a webinar series offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each event aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories....
Making Public Histories – Why Republics Die

Making Public Histories – Why Republics Die

Why Republics Die In the third Making Public Histories event of 2026, Prof Peter McPhee will be moderating a panel of historians from three distinct periods to consider how democratic and republican regimes fail. Are they vulnerable to authoritarian and military...
Making Public Histories – Why Republics Die

The Australian Legacies of British Slavery

Recent research has revealed the myriad connections – encompassing people, capital, labour practices and ideologies – between Australia’s colonisation and chattel slavery in the Atlantic World. People who had benefitted from owning enslaved people or investing in the...